In both literature and film, Mexican American fathers, when represented at all, lacked...
University of Texas Presswaited in line outside the Alabama Theatre, sometimes sitting on the sidewalk all day, for a chance to see “The Empire Strikes Back,” the much-anticipated sequel to George Lucas’s “Star Wars.” The theater,
My father was a complicated individual; most people are in some way or another. But the stories being told in books and films about Mexican, Mexican American and Latino fathers were not about men like my father or the others I grew up knowing. Instead, the men were repeatedly raced, classed and gendered in ways that solidified a singular way of being a Mexican American father at the expense of more nuanced or complicated depictions.
We made our way down the aisle judging our distance from the screen in an effort to find the perfect seats. We settled on two directly beneath the illuminated central ceiling medallion. From our spot approximately halfway back from the screen, we saw that the theater held us and a few others. At our first viewing of “The Empire Strikes Back,” the lights dimmed seconds before the John Williams score filled the theater and the iconic narrative crawl stretched its way toward the horizon. Then the symphony of sound crashed into the theater and I was immediately lost in ice, tauntauns and the landscapes of Hoth.
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